How to copy as plain text from any source

November 25th, 2008 Suppose you want to copy and paste texts from a web page. Though the data can easily be copied (unless that particular website has copy protection) as plain text and pasted to yours, its painful to take all the metadata alongside it.

July 13th, 2007 Unicode offers flipped versions of standard English characters. You can use a small javascript based utility to get flipped version of any word or phrase.

July 10th, 2008 The WordPress Visual Editor is finally passable and I have switched to it from plain HTML editor. It saves you time from formatting text while blogging.

August 15th, 2007 I glanced over the Facebook source code for both index and search pages. As an enterprise developer of some experience, source code is always interesting to me as it provides an insight into the health of a company.

July 28th, 2005 Microsoft's effort to refuse access to updated versions of Windows Operating System has been foiled by hackers within 24 hours. Microsoft demanded that those who wanted Windows updates, other than security updates, will have to download an Active X program that sniffed their operating system to see if their OS copy had been pirated.

October 21st, 2005 This tip comes from Pete Freitag: Always, always set autocomplete="off" in the input tag. For example: <input type="text" name="cc" autocomplete="off" /&rt; Otherwise, if people have the form completion feature turned on their credit card number will be stored in plain text somewhere on the computer (in the registry, or elsewhere).

September 18th, 2005 Wp-Cache2 is a WordPress Plugin to cache WordPress generated pages. However it doesn't work with in-built gzip compression.

May 15th, 2006 Sajax is an useful ajax framework to simplify ajax based development for languages like PHP, Ruby etc. Not many realize Sajax can be used equally well from plain old html pages (as in .html or .htm).

November 16th, 2005 Copy-Protection recently came to limelight as Sony used DRM technology to copy-protect its CD's which makes them vulnerable to viruses and malware. This website allows you to search for music CD in Amazon database which do not have any kind of copy-protection enabled.

May 14th, 2009 This is an exclusive stuff for your MySpace or friendster users. Frankly you are there to make friends.

July 3rd, 2007 My blog had this vexing problem where it used to render ugly, really ugly, as the stylesheet wasn't being loaded on Firefox. However after a refresh everything was fine.

July 22nd, 2005 Paul Mutton of jibbler.org had a bad experience with Sys-Con. Not only they didn't remunerate him (as per agreement) they also didn't provide him with free copies as promised.

November 22nd, 2007 Text-Link-Ads upped the ante in their fight against Google (in their effort to help people buy page rank) with the following "tips" for bloggers: Our advertisers don’t like ad blocks that are titled “Sponsored Links” “Advertisements” “TLA” “Text Link Ads” etc. They prefer no heading but if you do use a heading please consider using an image not text and consider using something like “Recommended Sites”.

October 2nd, 2006 Microsoft Corp. has sued an anonymous computer hacker whose free program FairUse4WM allows users to copy digital movies and songs by bypassing a software protection (DRM) built into the company's Media player.

October 18th, 2007 I recently got two interesting comments from a scammer. The comments are very interesting because it preys on the need of people to snoop around other's MySpace account (or life in general) to dupe them of their own account information.